At the end of the day, nurses are at the front lines of quality patient care, and the ones supporting a philosophy of caring in health care. ... Liehr and Smith (1999) state, "For nursing to move forward in the new millennium, recommendations for future theorizing should include the important elements of a clear articulation of theory names, deliberate attention to research-practice connections, and a creation of theories in connection with the nursing perspective, with the movement of middle-range theories to the front lines of nursing research. ...

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American Well is an online care company that allows patients to be consulted by their physicians online without the long waiting hours in the hospital or scheduling months in advance. The idea arose when the co-founders Ido and Roy saw potential in internet and communications industry and decided to...

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Healthcare is in crisis in many countries, not least of which is the United States. We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. There are a number of systemic failures; however, none is more fundamental and difficult to correct than the basic lack of human resources. There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. The problem is intensified in rural areas, where specialized physicians may not be found within several hundred miles. ...

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The National Center for Policy Analysis (1998) stated that "Experts contend that the nation's 6,000 hospitals, 50,000 nursing homes and 700,000 doctors all need to locate and repair billions of lines of faulty computer code- (p. 1). ... Many surveys have been performed to assess the readiness of the industry both on an operational and technical front. ...

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